HiSilicon Kirin 8020 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite 2

Compared 2 processors: HiSilicon Kirin 8020, vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite 2. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs HiSilicon Kirin 8020 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite 2
Processor Performance
Single-Core Benchmark Score
Gaming Performance
Graphics and OpenCL/Vulkan tests
Energy Efficiency
Chip Power Efficiency
NanoReview Score
Overall score by NanoReview

Tests & specs

Specs & test comparison

Benchmarks

CPU performance comparison across tasks
AnTuTu 10
AnTuTu 10
HiSilicon Kirin 8020
1326372
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite 2
3115282
CPU430571679852
GPU5510631283493
Memory212421646515
UX132317505422
NanoReview Score13263723115282
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
HiSilicon Kirin 8020
1350
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite 2
3393
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
HiSilicon Kirin 8020
3570
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite 2
11515
File Compression155.7 MB/s421.4 MB/s
HTML5 Browser101.3 pages/s268 pages/s
PDF Rendering117.6 MP/sec300.8 MP/sec
Background Blur11.9 frames/s42.4 frames/s
Photo Processing34.7 frames/s115.6 frames/s
Image Detection60.2 frames/s353.8 frames/s
HDR95.4 MP/sec339.4 MP/sec
Ray Tracing4.78 MP/sec14.1 MP/sec

Processor

Architecture - 1x 2.285 GHz –
- 3x 2.05 GHz –
- 4x 1.3 GHz –
- 2x 4.6 GHz -
- 6x 3.63 GHz -
Process SMIC TSMC
Cores count 8 8
Frequency 2285 4600
Instruction set ARMv8-A ARMv9.2-A
L3 Cache n/a 16 MB
Process tech. 7 nm 3 nm

Graphics

GPU specifications including architecture, frequency, compute units, and support for graphics APIs (Vulkan, OpenCL, DirectX).
GPU Model Maleoon 920 n/a
Architecture Maleoon n/a
GPU Frequency 840 MHz n/a
Execution Units 4 n/a
Shader Units 256 n/a
Total shader 1024 n/a
FLOPS 1720.3 GFLOPS 3990 GFLOPS
Vulkan 1.3 n/a
OpenCL 2.0 n/a
DirectX 12 n/a

AI Acceleration

Specifications of the neural processor (NPU / DSP) responsible for machine learning and AI acceleration tasks.
Artificial Intelligence Da Vinci Hexagon

Memory

RAM
Memory Type LPDDR5X LPDDR5X
Memory Frequency 4266 MHz n/a
Bus 4x16 bit 4x16 bit
Bandwidth 68.2 Gbit/s n/a
Max RAM 16 GB n/a

Multimedia

GPU, ISP capabilities, display and camera support, as well as audio and video codec compatibility.
Memory Type UFS 4.0 - UFS 4.0
- UFS 4.1
Camera n/a 1x320 pixels
Video recording 4K at 60FPS, 1K at 120FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video quality 4K at 60FPS, 1080p at 120FPS 8K at 60FPS, 4K at 120FPS
Video codecs - H.264
- H.265
- VP9
- H.264
- H.265
- AV1
- VP8
- VP9
Audio codecs - AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
- AAC
- AIFF
- CAF
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV

Connectivity

4G Support n/a LTE Cat. 24
5G Support Yes Yes
Wi-Fi version 7 7
Bluetooth version 5.4 6.0
Navigation - GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- NAVIC
- GPS
- GLONASS
- Beidou
- Galileo
- QZSS
- NAVIC

Other

Announced May, 2025 yr September, 2025 yr
Class Mid-range Flagship
Codename n/a SM8850

Results

After analyzing the data, we consider HiSilicon Kirin 8020 the clear winner in this comparison.

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